Scripting

How to use the Scripting tool to modify the Request/Response by Javascript Code.

1. What's it?

Proxyman offers a scripting feature that the developer could write the JS code to manipulate the Request/Response in a flexible way.

2. Benefits

• Implement Map Local / Map Remote / Breakpoint by JS Code. 100x Faster

• Change the Request Content, including Domain, Host, Scheme, Port, Path, HTTP Method, HTTP Headers, Query, Body (Encoded-Form, JSON, plain-text)

• Change the Response Content, including HTTP Status Code, HTTP Headers, and Body (JSON, Encoded-Form, plain-text, binary...)

• Provide plenty of built-in addons and libraries for common tasks, such as Hashing, Encode/Decode, JSON-Text transformer, Beautify,...

• Able to write your own JS Addons or Libraries

• Designed to replace Rewrite GUI Tool from Charles Proxy

• Assign and receive shared States between each script or current session with ShareState or Environment Variables

Scripting Tool

Snippet Code

3. How to use it?

You can access the Scripting Tool by:

• Script Menu -> Script List (⌥⌘I)

• Open Menu Context from Right Click on the Flow -> Tools -> Scripting

Please Check out Snippet Code to see a collection of snippet JS codes for the Scripting Tool.

4. Scripting with GraphQL Requests

From Proxyman 2.27.0+, the Scripting Tool can work with GraphQL Request by a specific QueryName. Please check out the following GraphQL Document.

GraphQL

5. Examples

The following guide will show you how to write JS code to change the Request domain from Production to Localhost and change the Response Body

1. Make sure you enable SSL for this domain before creating the script)

2. Open the Scripting Tool and create a new Script Entry (⌘N). You can right-click on the Request -> Tools -> Scripting => Proxyman will create a Script too

3. Give the name and define a Matching Rule.

4. Ex: Name=Test on Localhost endpoint, URL=https://proxyman.io

5. Enable Run Script on Request and Response checkbox

6. Start writing JS code for onRequest function

onRequest(context, url, request) {}

// Import UUID addons
const { uuidv4 } = require("@addons/UUID.js");

function onRequest(context, url, request) {
  // print log
  console.log(request);

  // Change Production domain -> Localhost
  request.method = "GET";
  request.scheme = "http";
  request.host = "localhost";
  request.port = 8000;
  
  // Add new header
  request.headers["X-New-Header"] = "Hello From Scripting feature";
  request.headers["UUID"] = uuidv4(); // generate random UUIDv4
  delete request.headers["Key-Need-Delete"];

  // Update or Add a new Query
  request.queries["name"] = "Proxyman";

  // Update Body
  var body = request.body;
  body["name"] = "Proxyman";
  request.body = body;
  
  // Or Map the body with a local file (Proxyman 2.25.0+)
  // request.bodyFilePath = "~/Desktop/mockdata.json";
  
  // Done
  return request;
}

onRequest() Object Format

context, url and request objects are defined by:

// context (readonly)
{
    "scriptName": "<String> Your Script Name",
    "matchingRule": "<String> Your Matching Rule",
    "matchingMethod": "<String> Method",
    "isEnableOnRequest": "Bool",
    "isEnableOnResponse": "Bool",
    "filePath": "<String> Script path",
    "flow": { // Availble from 2.16.0+
        "serverPort": "443",
        "serverIpAddress": "104.18.230.83",
        "clientIpAddress": "192.168.0.102",
        "remoteDeviceName": "iPhone XR",
        "remoteDeviceIP": "192.168.0.102",
        "id": "51",
        "clientPath": null,
        "clientPort": "51494",
        "clientName": null
    },
}

// url (readonly)
url: String // => Present the full URL

// request
{
    "method": "<String> HTTP Method. Accept string method. Ex: GET, POST, ...",
    "scheme": "<String> Accept http or https",
    "host": "<String> Host of the request. Ex: api.proxyman.io, localhost, ...",
    "path": "<String>: Path of the URL. Ex: /v1/data",
    "port": "<Int> Accept int port number. Ex: 443, 8080, ..",
    "queries": "<[String: Any]> A JS Object (Dictionary) contains key values of the query",
    "headers": "<[String: Any]> A JS Object (Dictionary) contains key values of the header",
    "body": "Depend on the Content-Type header. It might be a dictionary for JSON and form, Plain Text or Uint8Array",
    "bodyFilePath": "<String><Optional> Set a body with a local file. See example in Snippet Code Page"
    "rawBody": "<Readonly>: A raw body String or Uint8Array",
    "preserveHostHeader": "<Bool> Preserve the Host",
    "isURLEncoding": "<Bool> Determine if Proxyman will perform URLEncoding when constructing the final URL. Default is True"
}

You can change any value of the request obj except rawBody

If the body variable is invalid format due to incorrect Content-Type in the Header. Please consider using the rawBody and manually parse the string.

The type of request.body replies on the Content-Type Header.

Content-Type Header	request.body
application/json or JSON families	Javascript Object
application/x-www-form-urlencoded	Javascript Object
plain-text or text-based Content-Type, Ex: application/js, text/css, text/html, ...	String
The rest: Binary Data (application/zip, application/octet-stream)	Uint8Array

Check out common JS code from Snipped Code Page

Snippet Code

7. Start writing code on onResponse function

function onResponse(context, url, request, response) {
  console.log(response);

  // Update or Add a new header
  response.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json";

  // Update status Code
  response.statusCode = 500;

  // Update Body
  var body = response.body;
  body["new-key"] = "Proxyman";
  response.body = body;

  // Or Map the body with a local file (Proxyman 2.25.0+)
  // response.bodyFilePath = "~/Desktop/mockdata.json";
  
  // Done
  return response;
}

onResponse() Objects Format

context, url, request, and response objects are defined by:

// context (readonly): Same with onRequest

// url (readonly): Same with onRequest

// request (readonly): Same with onRequest

// response
{
    "statusCode": "<Int> Status Code. Ex: 200, 400, 404,...",
    "httpVersion": "<String><Readonly> The HTTP Version",
    "statusPhrase": "<String><Readonly> HTTP Status Phrase. Ex Not Found, OK, ...",
    "headers": "<[String: Any]> A JS Object (Dictionary) contains key values of the header",
    "body": "Depend on the Content-Type header. It might be a dictionary for JSON and form, PlainText or Uint8Array",
    "rawBody": "<Readonly>: A raw body String or Uint8Array",
    "bodyFilePath": "<String><Optional> Set a body with a local file. See example in Snippet Code Page"
}

You can change statusCode, headers and body from the response Obj

If the body variable is invalid format due to incorrect Content-Type in the Header. Please consider using rawBody and manually parse the string.

The type of response.body replies on the Content-Type Header

Content-Type Header	request.body
application/json or JSON families	Javascript Object
application/x-www-form-urlencoded	Javascript Object
plain-text or text-based Content-Type, Ex: application/js, text/css, text/html, ...	String
The rest (application/zip, application/octet-stream)	Uint8Array

You must return request and response object in onRequest and onResponse function

6. Built-in Addons and Libraries

Proxyman provides plenty of addons and libraries that help you achieve common tasks: Hashing, Encode/Decode, ...

Addons

Built-in JS Libraries

Snippet Code

7. Debugging JS Error

On certain occasions, you might encounter Javascript errors due to syntax errors, invalid code, ... You can debug by looking at error messages on the console or using console.log().

8. Use Scripting as a Mock API

From Proxyman 2.32.0, we can use the Scripting Tool as a Mock API. It means your request would never hit the server, and you have to define a Response Body. This behavior is the same with Map Local.

This feature is useful when the actual Restful API is not available yet. You can define and test it locally.

To enable the Mock API:

1. Open the Scripting Tool -> Select the Script

2. Enable Run as Mock API checkbox.

Enable Mock API

Then you can define a Response as usual:

function onResponse(context, url, request, response) {

  // Init new body
  var body = {};
  body["new-key"] = "Proxyman";
  response.body = body;

  // Or map from a file
  // response.bodyFilePath = "~/Desktop/myfile.json"
  
  // Done
  return response;
}

9. Notes

• You must return request and response Object in onRequest and onResponse function.

• Proxyman 4.16.0 or later: Proxyman now converts the Binary Data to Uint8Array

• Proxyman 4.15.0 or earlier: Since Javascript doesn't have the Data object type, the Data Body will convert to Base64 Encoded String in Javascript. To pass Uint8Array, blob, or ArrayBuffer to the body, make sure you convert to Base64 Encoded String.